Library Buildings around the World

Arched openings lead to each of three separate beamed reading rooms for Teens, Children and Adults and rear stack room. Each
room opens onto a tiled courtyard with seating and specimen trees. (M2A)
Machado and Silvetti Associate
s. Architecture and Urban Design, Boston – USA
http://www.machado-silvetti.com
Libraries:
Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR – USA 2005 – 2007
Awards:
9th International Award for Architecture in Stone 2005
AIA National Honor Award for Architecture 2003
Harleston Parker Medal, Boston Society of Architects 2003
Honor Award, Boston Society of Architects 2003
Honor Award, AIA New England 2002
Honor Award, Boston Society of Landscape Architects 2002
Willard J. Walker Hall is designed to accommodate both recent and future growth anticipated at the Walton College of Business at
the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. The building showcases state-of-the-art teaching classrooms and student learning spaces,
teaming rooms, spaces for industry partnering, and a trading room. Walker Hall takes advantage of its hillside location to project a
contemporary image visible from downtown Fayetteville. It presents itself as a solid mass with a series of protruding glass boxes that
express key interior spaces. Inside, four architectural staircases connecting the five floors lead one through a succession of doubleheight
spaces that are nodes for the primary programmatic elements of the building. Red, ochre, and gray stained concrete floors
visually define a hierarchy of plazas, avenues, and streets. The vertical organization of the program promotes connections between
undergraduates, graduate students, and the various research centers. The largest of these double-height volumes is the forum, which
links together Shollmier Plaza, café seating areas, a 150-seat auditorium and the trading center. Other double-height spaces are
adjacent to undergraduate classrooms, research center meeting rooms, and a graduate reading resource room. Walker Hall, along
with the adjacent Center for Academic Excellence building, frames a new academic quadrangle. The strong massing, materials, and
landscape tie together the previously undefined campus precinct. (Machado)
Boston Public Library – Honan-Allston Branch, Allston, MA – USA 1998 – 2001
Awards:
2004 AWARD FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE, Boston Society of Architects
2003 AIA NATIONAL HONOR AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE, National Association of the American Institute of Architects.
HARLESTON PARKER MEDAL, Boston Society of Architects
2002
HONOR AWARD, Boston Society of Architects
HONOR AWARD, AIA New England
HONOR AWARD, Boston Society of Landscape Architects
The new Honan-Allston Branch Library is a single story 20,000 square foot building along a prominent neighborhood street. The
building addresses issues that are important to the Boston Public Library, including maximum visual control within the library, a
reading garden that serves as many spaces as possible, off-hours access for community use, and a prominent reading room on the
front of the building. The scheme divides the building into three parallel zones. The front zone contains all the active, informationgathering
program components, including the stacks. The rear zone contains all of the meeting and program spaces, which have offhours
community use. The middle zone is very transparent, with alternating gardens and glass pavilion reading rooms. By creating
several small garden spaces rather than a single large garden, each reading room is able to have a garden on both sides. This
organization allows a beautiful specimen Beech tree to be preserved in one of the gardens. The warm material palette is made up of
slate shingles and panels, rough slate blocks, and wood cladding. Natural finished wood windows are used with a combination of
fixed and operable units. The interior floors are a combination of wood and cork which shares the same warm tones of the exterior
materials. (Machado)
The Machado and Silvetti design team actively engaged the community in every aspect of the design process. Their participation in
numerous meetings and community events helped to develop a design scheme that not only addressed the multitude of tasks and
services provided by our public library today, but also transformed a site into an inviting and vibrant new civic structure The end
result is a fantastically well-received building now being overwhelmed with significant public use.
(Bernard A. Margolis, President The Boston Public Library)
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, Georgia – USA
http://www.msmearch.com
Libraries:
Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library – University of California, Berkeley, CA – USA 2004
Lee B. Philmon Branch Library, Riverdale, GA – USA 1997
John J. Ross – William C. Blakley Law Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ – USA 1993
Carol Cobb Turner Branch Library, Morrow, GA – USA 1991
[ Buckhead Branch Library, Atlanta, GA – USA 1989
Clayton County Headquarters Library, Joensboro, GA – 1988 ]
Mahlum Architects, Seattle, WA – Portland, WA – USA
http://www.mahlum.com
Libraries:
Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle WA – USA 2002
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